Social Media Influence: Custom does "MoJo” with Nokia and Cardiff University
Social Media Influence: Custom does “MoJo” with Nokia and Cardiff University
An interesting experiment between Matt Yeomans – from Custom Communications – Cardiff University’s School of Journalism and Nokia Trendlabs.
Mobile journalism is the coming thing, lots of editors I’ve talked to lately are really interested in this approach.
Personally I also find it interesting that Matt has been using a Ning social network as the host to his course, eschewing the regular VLE that Cardiff uses.
It’s had its ups and downs, but has been interesting in that it is easy for the students to work together and view each other’s work.
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The Guardian’s Obssessed with online networks
Great story in the Guardian yesterday from an Ofcom report into how much time people are spending in online networks.
The report says that 39 per cent of adults with internet access use social networking sites
Apparently we’re averaging five hours a month in MySpace, Facebook etc (I feel like I’m doing a lot more at the minute – my course has got me soc-netting, I’m on Facebook, I’ve got a Ning network for my student group, one with my colleagues and I’ve been invited into another for a research group…. And I’m trying to drum up support for a friend’s rude punk band on MySpace too.). Read more
Social learning
Social communities – why bother? After all we’ve all got enough on our plates without having to worry about people we don’t know or like wanting to become our ‘friends’ – haven’t we?
They’re here to stay, of that there is no doubt – so I guess I’d better learn to use them to my advantage rather than just whine about them.
My students are involved in a project using a Ning community set up by one of my colleagues and we’re using an Eduspaces community for my masters project. Both are proving to be interesting, both have their own little usability problems that get in the way of things a bit.
I’ve also been doing quite a lot of reading on how journalists are using things like Facebook to their advantage, great article on Magda’s Web Creation called Facebook – love it or loathe it that features what the Beeb and other organisations are up.
This electronic form of social link between disparate individuals has massive implications for journalists and educators alike. Read more